In California, the rate of uninsured residents stood at 7.2 percent last year, compared with 7.3 percent in 2016. Since 2013, the year before the coverage-expanding provisions of the federal health law took...

California’s expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act enabled many low-income HIV patients, but some faced gaps in treatment, payment disputes and doctors who had little understanding of life...

President Donald Trump’s hand-picked food and drug czar, Scott Gottlieb, said this week that he “strongly supports” a proposal by officials in Sacramento to exempt the morning elixir from the state’s...

The University of Southern California veered sharply and deliberately from tradition in naming the first woman — and the first geriatrician — to lead its 133-year-old medical school.Dr. Laura Mosqueda,...